INFLUENCE
\ˈɪnfluːəns], \ˈɪnfluːəns], \ˈɪ_n_f_l_uː_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of INFLUENCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; "used her parents' influence to get the job"
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a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"
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the effect of one thing (or person) on another; "the influence of mechanical action"
By Princeton University
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a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; "used her parents' influence to get the job"
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a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"
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the effect of one thing (or person) on another; "the influence of mechanical action"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A flowing in or upon; influx.
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Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.
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Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
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Induction.
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To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.
By Oddity Software
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A flowing in or upon; influx.
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Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.
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Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
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Induction.
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To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.
By Noah Webster.
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Energy or power tending to produce effects by indirect or invisible means; as, a great leader must have real influence over men; power arising from wealth or station; as, through the influence of the politician he obtained the position; that which exerts power over someone or something.
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To have unseen power over, physically or mentally; to change.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To act upon, as by mental power or unseen agency; affect; move.
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The gradual or unseen operation of some cause; ability to sway the will of another.
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Influencely.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Authority; sway; power of directing or modifying, seen or felt by its effects.
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To move or affect by moral force; to lead or direct; to move by physical power.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] A flowing in or upon; influx ; -the visible operation of an invisible power;—in physics, the effect produced on material bodies by the secret forces in nature, as of light, heat, air, &c. ;- the effect formerly supposed to be produced by the planetary system on terrestrial persons and events;- in morals, the effect of truth on the mind; motive; consideration; reasonable inducement; force acting on the heart or affections; constraining power of love or sympathy;- effect produced by individual charcter, social rank, wealth, &c. ; sway; authority; control;- spiritual or divine power acting on the heart or life.
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